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on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @12:52PM
from the making-it-all-up dept.

alphadogg writes Three MIT grads this week are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their clever SCIgen program, which randomly generates computer science papers realistic enough to get accepted by sketchy technical conferences and publishers, with a brand new tool designed to poke even more fun at such outfits. Just a bit late for April Fool's Day, the new SCIpher program from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab alums enables users to hide messages inside randomly-generated calls for papers from phony conferences whose names are so ridiculous that they sound legit. An MIT spokesman says the new tool is really just a way for geeky friends to mess with each other, whereas SCIgen pointed out major flaws in the worlds of scientific journals and conferences.

CFP: the HTBAI Special Issue on interposable, peer-to-peer multimedia:: CALL FOR PAPERS::

The mission of this special issue is to provide a forum for answering the structured issues in the emulation, emulation, and investigation of flip-flop gates and Moore's Law. This symposium HTBAI is a perfect opportunity for futurists from independent graphics and modding enthusiasts from Markov steganography to come together to offer their advanced and recent reviews. The special issue also attempts at offering a seminar for answering the theoretical grand challenges in the simulation, improvement, and investigation of journaling file systems and Internet QoS. Thusly, HTBAI hopes to confirm not only that the World Wide Web and XML are entirely incompatible, but that the same is true for lambda calculus.

Keynote speakers:* Elliot Holt - Siberian Institute of Law Economics and ManagementTheoretical unification of IPv6 and the Turing machine* Professor Rodrick Mcclain - Hong Kong Baptist UniversityA methodology for the understanding of superblocks* Francisco Wilkins - University of the Basque CountryA case for scatter/gather I/O* Prof. Louise Bennett - Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityDeconstructing containers* Dr. Marcos Robbins - Swinburne University of TechnologyA understanding of Web services that would allow for further study into the partition table* Professor Darron Grant - University of GenevaDeconstructing DNS* Mike Warner - University of California DavisA understanding of simulated annealing with linked lists that would allow for further study into DHTs

HTBAI takes abstracts on any motif related to the themes and the topics clarified above. Principally, end-users are told to submit their drafts by mail. But, half-baked revisions welcomed by this conference will be provided as revisions in the collection of the workshop on self-learning algorithms.

The call for papers have always been difficult to read pieces of work. You quickly glance at the deadlines to see if you can get one in, then the location to see if it is worth going there and pass on. Except for the more aged members of the academia who sit in panels and act as editors to pad up an useless CV no one cares about all these names in these calls.